 I moved back to Columbia, South Carolina two years ago to do my master's at the Dollarmore School of Business. And I was living in Portland, Oregon, and I traveled. I was a former military, so I traveled around the world a few places. And coming home, there are certain places that we, you know, in Columbia that you love to find, you know, nice images in. And I had heard about, some of my family members had told me about the Love Columbia SC Challenge. And I think that Columbia is sort of searching for culture right now, especially in the time of coronavirus, and trying to develop culture. And this is one of those cultural programs where we can sort of look at Columbia and say, what culture, what does Columbia have around that is artistic and is beautiful and that we can share with each other and celebrate. And so I spend a lot of time down by that, the Riverwalk or the Columbia Canal. And I just love walking there. It's just, I think a lot of people find it to be one of one of the real items that we're very proud of in Columbia. And so you can walk that and you can go on little journeys there and there's different paths you can take around it. But that particular area is an area where the highway comes over the canal and the river. And it's interesting because if you walk all the way down to the end, what you have is the old lock system that is used to bring boats into the canal. And what I love about it is that when they built that, you know, over 100 years ago, when they built that, they probably weren't thinking, hey, we're going to, years from now, we're going to build these massive roads that will take us to, you know, these places with trucks in an hour or two, that would take us, you know, days to get down on the river. And it's really sort of this juxtaposition between this, here's the canal right there, this old motor transportation, which was vital to Columbia. And then here's this new aspect of Columbia, which is this massive highway over it. And there's symmetry in that. And they work well together. So it goes over the river. And you can see the symmetry of the highway over this river that was again, at one point, this great mode of transportation for people and travel and trade and everything. So what you went up with is, I don't know, I like the symmetry of that. I think a lot of people like the symmetry of that. I've seen a lot of pictures of it. I'm glad that mine got picked. But it is definitely one of those images when you walk by it, you generally stop and you're kind of like, wow, that is, that's a cool picture that we have of, you know, from Columbia leading out to the rest of the United States. So the reason why I chose to participate was actually due to a friend that I'm friends with on Facebook. We actually are coworkers. And he knows that photography is a hobby of mine. I'm definitely not a professional at all. But it is something that I enjoy doing on my days off. So he had shared the link with me. And I said, when I actually read, you know, what was involved or what was, you know, required, I said, this is simple. I said, you know, I can still participate and enjoy doing what I always like doing before. So the pictures that I chose were ones that I again, I have already gone on trips around town. I know that I chose the old hospital that was on Bull Street, because the recently had just burned. So I wanted to share that along with some that were from Elmwood Cemetery. So again, these are ones that I've just chosen that I wanted to actually share. You know, again, my love and my hobby with others within the town to hopefully maybe promote some of those locations that other people had never really considered on visiting. I've been living in Colombia since 1983. And I love the city. I raised my kids here, I graduated here, got married here. So I have a lot of cherished memories. And lately, I've taken up photography, actually, in 2020. And I've taken a lot of beautiful pictures at the Riverfront Park. And when I saw the announcement for the contest, I knew I had to enter, I actually entered several of my favorite photos, including the one that one, which is the butterfly. I chose, well, I chose several of them, but this one in particular, was really neat. The contrast between the butterfly and the bench that it was on. I remember exactly where I took it. It was at the Riverfront Park facing the water. And I love the colors of the butterfly. And apparently other others liked it too. I've lived in Colombia for almost 18 years. And when I saw the hashtag Love Colombia SC contest, I immediately wanted to join and participate because I indeed do love my city. Colombia has been very good to me. This is now home. I am an upstate native from Greenville, South Carolina, originally. But after almost 18 years, Colombia is home now. So I really have enjoyed living here. It's a very diverse city, lots of things to do. I wake up on a Saturday morning, I might decide to go to the State Museum, the Art Museum, go to a Greek festival, an international festival, or just walk along the Casey River Walk. There's just a plethora of things to enjoy to do in this great city. So I'm proud to be a resident of Colombia. And like I said, indeed, I do love Colombia SC.